You remember how the story ends: No one said anything about the emperor’s nakedness, not wanting to be seen as unfit themselves. So the royal procession continued down the avenue until a small child called out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!” At first the child’s father hushed him, but then, beginning with a whisper and growing to a shout, the people of the city started shouting, “He hasn’t got anything on!” The emperor, while fearing they were right, kept the procession going. And his courtiers followed him, holding a train that wasn’t there.
